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First Docs to Expand Nationally With Private Equity Backing

Hospice News

First Docs is a physician-led internal medicine practice that offers a range of health care services and frequently collaborates with hospice, palliative care, and home health providers, among others. CEO Dr. Sanjay Bhatia founded First Docs in 2010, introducing its proprietary 360 Community Medicine Care Model.

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Medicare Claims for Unrelated Services Put Hospices at Risk

Hospice News

CMS has taken a stance that essentially all the care needed by a terminally ill patient should be covered through the benefit. Between 2010 and 2019 Medicare paid a total of $6.6 Case in point, the skilled nursing and long-term care service provider American Senior Communities recently settled an FCA case for upwards of $5.5

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Realizing a Dream: How I Earned My Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing

Nurse.com

Stage five: From long-term care to trauma The children are getting older. I became a staff nurse in the ortho-trauma unit caring for patients with gunshot wounds, broken limbs in traction, and all manner of trauma. I have to admit it was challenging, having spent most of my career in long-term care.

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Rise of the Dutch Model of Neighbourhood Care

AlayaCare

Yet this model of care is also poised to help the bottom line too. They are: A 2010 Ernst & Young study that calculated this model can save costs per patient by up to 40% as compared to regular home care agencies. They experience fewer health problems as a result of a more focused care plan.

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2022: What will the technical experts say?

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

First: Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for the Refinement of Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)/Nursing Facility (NF), and Home Health (HH) Function Measures. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Health literacy and rehab: The deviled eggs are in the details

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

We see the same dichotomy in supporting literacy of the primary diagnosis, which as we all know, is really just cracking the surface, and the development of functional plans of care supporting the full complexity of patients. In 2010, approximately 21.4 She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block. And Medicaid doesn’t pay enough to pay for long-term care. Ruth: People, society, those that need nursing home care, need to speak up and say, “This isn’t right.